Title
Multi-commodity source location problems and price of greed
Abstract
Given a graph G = (V, E), we say that a vertex subset S ⊆ V covers a vertex v ∈ V if the edge-connectivity between S and v is at least a given integer k, and also say that S covers an edge vw ∈ E if v and w are covered. We propose the multi-commodity source location problem, which is such that given a vertex- and edge-weighted graph G, r players each select p vertices, and obtain a profit that is the total weight of covered vertices and edges. However, vertices selected by one player cannot be selected by the other players. The goal is to maximize the total profits of all players. We show that the price of greed, which indicates the ratio of the total profit of cooperating players to that of selfish players, is tightly bounded by min{r, p}. Also when k = 2, we obtain tight bounds for vertex-unweighted trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-540-77891-2_16
WALCOM'08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Algorithms and computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
total profit,covered vertex,select p vertex,total weight,vertex subset,vertex v,edge-weighted graph,graph G,integer k,edge vw,Multi-commodity source location problem
Integer,Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Vertex (geometry),Bound graph,Vertex (graph theory),Commodity,Neighbourhood (graph theory),Mathematics,Bounded function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
1
0302-9743
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-77890-X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiro Ito129039.95
Mike Paterson2744152.22
Kenya Sugihara393.00